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A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort…
A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiors, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiours, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1681
Part 2 › More Testimonies of Councils added to the former Chap. 5.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
16. A Synod at Carpentoracte decreed, that the Bishop of the City shall not take all the Country Parish Maintenance to himself: Which implieth as the former, that his Country Parish was small.
17. A Council at Orleans, Anno 540. decree, Can. 3. about ordaining a Bishop, that [Qui praeponendus est omnibus, ab omnibus eligatur.] The Dioceses yet were not so large, but that All met to choose.
17. A Council at Orleance, Anno 540. decree, Can. 3. about ordaining a Bishop, that [Qui praeponendus est omnibus, ab omnibus eligatur.] The Dioceses yet were not so large, but that All met to chuse.
18. So Concil. Byzazen. saith, it must be [By the Election of all.]
19. Another at Orleans, Anno 545. saith, [No Citizen must celebrate Easter out of the City, because they must keep the principal Festivities in the presence of the Bishop, where the holy Assembly must be kept. But if any have a necessity to go ⟨p. 44⟩